page_title: Tamannaah
section_title: 2013–2014: Re-entry into Hindi and Tamil cinema
hierarchical_section_title: Tamannaah / Career / 2013–2014: Re-entry into Hindi and Tamil cinema
caption_attribution_description: English: Ajay Devgn, Tamannaah at trailer launch of 'Himmatwala'
context_page_description: Tamanna Bhatia, known professionally as Tamannaah, is an Indian film actress who predominantly appears in Telugu and Tamil films. She has also appeared in several Hindi films. In addition to acting, she also participates in stage shows and is a prominent celebrity endorser for brands and products.
  In 2005, she made her acting debut at the age of 15 in the Bollywood film Chand Sa Roshan Chehra and appeared in the Abhijeet Sawant album song "Lafzon main" from the album Aapka Abhijeet, which was also released in 2005, before working in Telugu cinema and Tamil cinema. In the same year, Tamannaah made her Telugu film debut in Sri, and the next year she appeared in her first Tamil movie, Kedi. In 2007, she starred in two college-life-based drama films, Happy Days in Telugu and Kalloori in Tamil.
  Her projects include the successful Tamil films Ayan, Paiyaa, Siruthai, Veeram, Dharma Durai, Devi, Sketch and her Telugu films include 100% Love, Oosaravelli, Racha, Thadaka, Baahubali: The Beginning, Bengal Tiger, Oopiri, Baahubali 2: The Conclusion, F2: Fun and Frustration, and Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy.
context_section_description: Tamannaah's first release of 2013 was Sajid Khan's Himmatwala, co-starring Ajay Devgan, which was the remake of the 1983 Hindi film of the same name, where she reprises the role of Sridevi from the original. Khan chose her considering her popularity in the South Indian cinema and the film marked her comeback to Hindi cinema. The film opened to negative reviews from critics, who felt that she matched Sridevi in terms of glamour, but failed in terms of acting skills which they termed as "below average". Himmatwala became a commercial failure at the box office.
  Her other release of 2013 was Kishore Kumar Pardasany's Tadakha, co-starring Naga Chaitanya, Sunil and Andrea Jeremiah, the official Telugu remake of N. Lingusamy's Vettai, where she reprises the role played by Amala Paul in the original. The film opened to moderate reviews from critics, and was commercially successful. She earned a nomination at the 3rd South Indian International Movie Awards in the Best Actor Female category.
  She made her comeback to Tamil cinema in 2014 after a sabbatical of three years with Siva's Veeram, co-starring Ajith Kumar. She said in an interview that she was in talks for a lot of Tamil films and would be signing a few soon. Veeram received positive reviews from critics, and became one of the highest grossing Tamil films of 2014. She again collaborated with Sajid Khan for the film Humshakals as one of the female leads. The film co-starred Saif Ali Khan, Ram Kapoor, Riteish Deshmukh, Bipasha Basu and Esha Gupta. The film received poor reviews from critics, and flopped at the box office. Tamannaah received a nomination at the 7th Golden Kela Awards in the worst actress category.
  She performed her first item number in V. V. Vinayak's Alludu Seenu, featuring Bellamkonda Sreenivas and Samantha Ruth Prabhu in the lead roles which she accepted to do upon Vinayak's request after walking out of the film initially due to changes in its script. That song, titled "Labbar Bomma", was well received by the audience.
  In her next release, Entertainment, directed by Sajid-Farhad, co-starring Akshay Kumar, she played the role of a television actress. While the film was a semi-hit at the box office, Her last release of 2014 was Srinu Vaitla's Aagadu, co-starring Mahesh Babu, in which she played the role of a village belle owning a chain of sweet shops. The film opened to mixed reviews and was a commercial failure at the box office.
caption: Tamannaah at the trailer launch of the film Himmatwala along with Ajay Devgn in January 2013, which marked her comeback to Hindi films
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